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Message: [QUOTE="junglejoe, post: 1337815, member: 18893"] So long story short, severe oil in the degas bottle. Figured oil cooler ruptured. Ok, cool. No biggie. Now here is where it gets fugged up! Found these pieces of metal in the oil side of the OEM oil cooler when I got it out. I decided to take my air hose and blow through, just to see how it was. Then I noticed the first piece of metal in the bottom. Got my telescoping magnet out and fished it out. I was like must be why the oil cooler dumped oil in the degas bottle.The cooler busted apart internally..? Then yesterday, I picked up the old oil cooler again, just looking at it and noticed another piece of metal sticking out of the side, about half way down(in the oil side) ,same as the other piece of metal. So I have checked the oil screen that is under the oil cooler, it has some very very minor trash or debris, no metal though! I took the IPR valve out to have a look at the screen, it looked brand new! I have not checked the oil pan or the oil yet to see if there is any more of this metal, I'll do that when I get off work today Truck was running flawlessly when I parked it in the driveway when I got back from my trip. It was not started again after I seen the oil in the degas bottle. Engine coolant was 175 and oil temp got as high as 230 under normal 70 mph driving on the highway, hauling nothing but my azz. I knew the oil cooler was going, just didn't have time to fix it and wasn't sure I wanted to attempt it.I have never worked on a "diesel" Its not to bad so far. So my question to you guys is this, what is these metal pieces? Ever seen anything like it? The degas pic I took to show the black oil in the gas bottle before I tore the truck apart.. In my other thread oil cooler ruptured there is a couple more pictures of this metal I found.. any idea what it is or what I should do? [/QUOTE]